Today's Doge-decorated Jonathan Mahler New York Times op-ed declaration of war against thoughtless #longform writering culture rubbed some readers the wrong way. An internet commenter named "Rick Moody," of "Brooklyn," has offered a counter-denunciation of "the vapidity of short form."
Black Florida Man Protests Union Monument by Singing "Dixie"
A state plan to honor Union soldiers at Florida's largest Civil War battlefield fell apart this week after "furious" pro-Confederate locals commandeered a town hall meeting, including an African-American activist who called Northern troops rapists and led the crowd in a round of Dixie.
Armenian Police: Emo Music Can "Distort Our Gene Pool"
A full-blown panic over emo music has taken hold of the Armenian capital of Yerevan, after a 15-year-old "emo" kid committed suicide. The Chief of Police warns that kids being into emo music will somehow produce a generation of mutants.
From the Culture War Trenches: Report from a Kinkaid School Performance of The Laramie Project
Among the first casualties of the Kinkaid School's Skip McGee-induced culture war were events surrounding a production of The Laramie Project. Now the play is finally up, albeit with fortified security and a new, perhaps more relevant context.
Changed America Still Hates the Gays
We know it's too soon to bring you all down, because last night was indeed an inspiring and amazing night and John Lewis was so so so great to see and wow, it was just, man. But! Other things went down in the great nation of ours too! We began looking at the Ballot Initiative fights, last night. But then we got drunk…
The Search For The Holy Grail
The Keith Gessen FSU Middlebrow Remix copy of All The Sad Young Literary Men has been sold for $890, to a very appropriate buyer. The money will be donated to the Homeless Coalition. May this act of charity redeem our souls. [Previously]
